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When TPB had to be blocked in the Netherlands and they switched to recommending magnet links instead of torrents (pretty close after each other), I thought someone would have done this sooner. But it's here now, and proxies do their job just fine ^^. (I couldn't load the page directly as it's blocked here.)


magnet of the magnets: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c&dn=The+whole+Pirate+Bay+magnet+archive&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80


You need to put your link example with new lines above and below, indented by two spaces. This will put it in a scrollable code box instead of stretching the page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc


thanks


Should be titled "The whole Pirate Bay magnet archive except this torrent" :-)

I think a magnet link is based on the hash of the contents too, so it might be an interesting problem to include the torrent's own magnet link in itself.


Son, in this house we respect Russel's paradox!


The BT Infohash is mostly a hash of the hashes of the blocks + file names + a couple of other things. Notably the list of trackers is not part of the infohash, so adding trackers to a torrent file does not affect the hash.

If you're really interested, install the Python module bencode, and use it to de-serialize a .torrent file.


The thing is, new torrents are uploaded to Pirate Bay all the time, so one can only archive TPB in any given moment - which has to be, of course, before the creation of this torrent.

The archive is static, the TPB database is dynamic :)




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